The Cruelest Month

Author: Louise Penny
Welcome to Three Pines, where the cruelest month is about to deliver on its threat.It’s spring in the tiny, forgotten village; buds are on the trees and the first flowers are struggling through the newly thawed earth. But not everything is meant to return to life. . . When some villagers decide to celebrate Easter with a séance at the Old Hadley House, they are hoping to r….Read More
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Chaos is coming, old son. With those words the peace of Three Pines is shattered. Everybody goes to Olivier’s Bistro—including a stranger whose murdered body is found on the floor.… Continue Reading Posted in: Detective And Mystery Stories, Fiction, International Mystery & Crime (Books), Quã©Bec, Traditional Detective Mysteries (Kindle Store)
This Body of Death
While DI Thomas Lynley is still on compassionate leave after the murder of his wife, Isabelle Ardery is brought into the Met as his temporary replacement. The discovery of a… Continue Reading Posted in: Detective And Mystery Stories, Fiction, Great Britain. Metropolitan Police Office. Criminal Investigation Department
The Dutch House
Ann Patchett, the New York Times bestselling author of Commonwealth and State of Wonder, returns with her most powerful novel to date: a richly moving story that explores the indelible bond… Continue Reading Posted in: Family Life, Literary, Stepmothers
A Fatal Grace
Welcome to winter in Three Pines, a picturesque village in Quebec, where the villagers are preparing for a traditional country Christmas, and someone is preparing for murder.No one liked CC… Continue Reading Posted in: Detective And Mystery Stories, International Mystery & Crime, Murder Investigation, Sã»Retã© Du Quã©Bec, Traditional Detective Mysteries
A Brew to a Kill
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Bury Your Dead
It is Winter Carnival in Quebec City, bitterly cold and surpassingly beautiful. Chief Inspector Armand Gamache has come not to join the revels but to recover from an investigation gone… Continue Reading Posted in: Armand (Fictitious Character), Detective And Mystery Stories, Fiction, Gamache, Murder, Police Procedurals (Kindle Store)
The Winds of Change (Richard Jury Mysteries )
Richard Jury embarks on the darkest investigation of his career when the dead body of a young London girl leads to the cold case of a missing girl in Launceston-an… Continue Reading Posted in: England Launceston, Girls Crimes Against, International Mystery & Crime (Books), Police Procedurals (Books)
The Beautiful Mystery
No outsiders are ever admitted to the monastery of Saint-Gilbert-Entre-les-Loups, hidden deep in the wilderness of Quebec, where two dozen cloistered monks live in peace and prayer. They grow vegetables,… Continue Reading Posted in: Detective And Mystery Stories, Fiction, Monasteries, Traditional Detective Mysteries (Books), Traditional Detective Mysteries (Kindle Store)
A Trick of the Light
"Hearts are broken," Lillian Dyson carefully underlined in a book. "Sweet relationships are dead."But now Lillian herself is dead. Found among the bleeding hearts and lilacs of Clara Morrow's garden… Continue Reading Posted in: Armand (Fictitious Character), Detective And Mystery Stories, Fiction, Gamache
Leave the Grave Green
A body is found floating in a Thames river lock. It is found to be that of Connor Swann, son-in-law of Sir Gerald Asherton, whose son was found in similar… Continue Reading Posted in: American Literature, Duncan (Fictitious Character), English Fiction, Kincaid, Police, Police Procedurals
Cain His Brother (William Monk Novels)
In his family life, Angus Stonefield had been gentle and loving; in business, a man of probity; and in his relationship with his twin brother, Caleb, a virtual saint. Now… Continue Reading Posted in: English Fiction, Private Investigator Mysteries (Kindle Store), Private Investigators, Victorian Literary Criticism (Books)
Still Life
Frederica Potter arrives at Cambridge University greedy for knowledge, sex and love. It isn’t long before she becomes infatuated with a mysterious and controlling poet. Back in Yorkshire, her sister… Continue Reading Posted in: Art, Domestic Fiction, Literary Fiction, Social Conditions

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